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61 " You don’t really know for certain about a family until somebody dies. You don’t know anything until that happens.” She "
― Armistead Maupin , Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
62 " Jesus Christ, you people are complicated. "
― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)
63 " The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it. "
64 " He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression. "
65 " The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved by the sheer accumulation of loss. Grief-fiti. That’s what it was. "
66 " Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy. "
― Armistead Maupin , Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)
67 " The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?” “I might. I could.” “You have to have a plan, Lasko.” “No, I don’t. Not after this. I don’t have to have a plan in the world. "
68 " Uh … you know, strict.” “With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh?” “Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I’m stoned. Then I’m a steako-lacto-ovo … or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo… "
― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
69 " Life goes on, sport. "
― Armistead Maupin , Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)
70 " She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her. "
― Armistead Maupin , Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
71 " Still, I gave her a call, wondering if she might have lost someone herself, but our talk was limited to the surreal events we’d just watched on television. A crisis does draw people together, but rarely for the right reason. The old wounds flare up again soon enough; the bond lasts no longer than the terror. "
72 " And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking—yours at the flip of a switch—what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He "
― Armistead Maupin , Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
73 " Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all. "
― Armistead Maupin , The Night Listener
74 " C'était le grand point fort de l'amour : quelqu'un qui vous attend et vous déclare que le chemin sera moins pénible, à partir de maintenant. Même si ce n'est peut-être pas vrai. "
75 " In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries. "
76 " Help me find Vuitton.” The priest scolded her with a glance. “You’ve lost him again?” “Of course not,” said Prue. “He’s around here somewhere. Vuiiiton! Here, boy!Vuiiiiiton! … "
77 " The little pool was lighted now, the same glowing green-or so I imagined-as the eyes of the cats who slept in the shadows around it. "
― Armistead Maupin , Maybe the Moon
78 " We have rules. Full disclosure, for one thing. And we're in bed with each other at the end of the day. Our commitment is for life, and we save our hearts for each other. That way we can have play AND permanency. If monogamy becomes more important than fidelity, you're bound to get hurt. It's all the lying that clobbers you, not the sex. "
― Armistead Maupin , Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)
79 " The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them. "
80 " And I’d like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances. "